Gary Floyd 0 Report post Posted December 10, 2006 Talking Heads-Remain in the Light Talking Heads-Speaking in Tongues Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted December 11, 2006 Municipal Waste - Waste 'Em All Fucking HELL YES! Thrash 'til you can't thrash no more. Saw 'em open for Gwar, and decided to grab the first Municipal Waste album I saw. Saw this and the other one, dunno how many they got out (might just be these two), but they're amazing throwbacks to 80's crossover, back when thrash, hardcore, and speed metal butted heads for the first time and produced DRI, SOD, and old-school Corrosion of Conformity before they went swamp. Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation Better than Waste 'Em All, but it really is more of the same. If you don't like thrash or crossover, stay far the fuck away from this band. Me? I love it. I love the fact that I'm getting more and more into it. I really need to check out more Cryptic Slaughter besides Money Talks, a ton of DRI, Cro-Mags...shit, there's so many bands I need to check out. One track starts off with a sample from one of the greatest mindfuck horror flicks ever, Phantasm (specifically the scene where Jodie and Michael decide to investigate the mortuary while at their house), and goes into an all-out thrash assault. If you can see this band live and don't mind thrash, hardcore, or speed metal, do so. You won't be bored, trust me, as they have a stage presence that must be seen (but won't be until the first song starts). The boogie-board, the beer-bong midway through a song, "trippin' balls"...it's all worth it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Si82 0 Report post Posted December 18, 2006 " Black Holes and Revelations" - Muse Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Si82 0 Report post Posted December 20, 2006 " Razorlight" - Razorlight "The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1" - Depeche Mode Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Garth 0 Report post Posted December 28, 2006 Justin Timberlake - "FutureSex/LoveSounds Beck - "The Information" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Baron 0 Report post Posted December 29, 2006 White Zombie: La Sexorcisto Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anorak 0 Report post Posted January 2, 2007 Son Volt - Trace American Analog Set - From Our Living Room To Yours The Thermals - More Parts Per Million Clem Snide - The Ghost Of Fashion Pinhead Gunpowder - Shoot The Moon Casiotone for the painfully alone - Twinkle Echo The Mr T Experience - Yesterday Rules The Ladybug Transistor - The Albemarle Sound Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted January 5, 2007 Including the two CDs for X-Mas... The Haunted - The Haunted The self-titled debut of one of the modern kings of thrash metal. In all honesty, I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, just a few songs (I put it all on my new iPod, and since I keep that on random...yeah), and...wow. I always made the joke of saying that The Haunted are Europe's modern-day answer to Slayer...and this album proves it. Peter Dolving's voice sounds nearly identical - IDENTICAL - to Tom Araya's, and it's such a nice departure from At The Gates for the bandmembers themselves (not that At The Gates were bad, just not really my forté) that it works. I prefer Dolving's vocals on rEVOLVEr over these, but he's still better than the other frontman they had for Made Me Do It and One Kill Wonder (I forget his name). Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark It's sad that of the pre-Blaze days, the only two albums I had before X-Mas were The Number of the Beast and Piece of Mind. True, I had Best of the Beast, but it's not the same, now is it? Fear of the Dark opens decently enough with "Be Quick or Be Dead," and then closes with the title track (one of Maiden's best, in my eyes), but in-between is...meh. It's generic Maiden, cut-copy-paste, but I'd take this over A Matter of Life and Death any day, really. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits It's weird. Tom Petty is one of the few singers/bands that both myself and my mother (complete opposite end of the music spectrum from me) can both enjoy, alongside Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Thorogood, Billy Joel, The Beatles, and AC/DC. I've never owned an album of his, and it was my girlfriend of all people that bought me it. I can't get "Mary Jane's Last Dance" out of my head, not even when listening to Zombie Apocalypse or Sepultura. I love this collection, and I can't wait to get my ass out there and buy some full albums. Send More Paramedics - The Hallowed and the Heathen I love thrash. I love zombies. I love listening to thrash songs about zombies. And I love it when the thrash itself isn't unintelligible screaming or remotely catchy (even in the pseudo-creepy sense, like some ZA tunes). SMP are a thrash band that worships the ground George A. Romero walks on (3 of the 4 members are dressed as zombies, the other - the drummer - is a fat luchadore that more closely resembles the Sexy Stud from Clerks II with a lucha mask than he does a wrestler) and writes some catchy fucking tunes. That's...it. It's simple, it's loud, it's fast, it's actually pretty lame...and I wouldn't want them to be any other way. Whereas Zombie Apocalypse go for the chaotic feel of thrash and use zombies as a metaphor for both the hardcore scene's unity and the crumbling of civilization, Send More Paramedics are just there to have fun with the brain-eating nonsense. They are the Return of the Living Dead to ZA's Dawn of the Dead (original). I can't wait until I find a copy of their second album that came out late last year, A Feast for the Fallen, because if it's half as fun as this one is I'll love it. Other albums bought since my last post in this thread: Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways And I'm soon going to get Gwar's Violence Has Arrived. I remember snubbing my nose at it when it came out a few years ago because I loved We Kill Everything and it was such a departure from that sound, but now that I've gotten into OLD Gwar...yeah, I need it. Especially since "Immortal Corruptor" owns your asses. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hank Kingsley 0 Report post Posted January 6, 2007 Belle & Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister Joshua Radin: We Were Here Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Si82 0 Report post Posted January 7, 2007 " Alright, Still" - Lily Allen "Stop the Clocks" - Oasis "Skin and Bones" - Foo Fighters "You're a Woman, I'm a Machine" - Death from Above 1979 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Special K 0 Report post Posted January 7, 2007 The Mollusk- Ween- Because my copy was ruined Murray Strret- Sonic Youth- I lost it. Pretty much 2/3'rds of Pink Floyd's albums for my brother for a Christmas present. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jaxxson Mayhem 0 Report post Posted January 7, 2007 This is the last CD I bought. DJ Screw: 11-16-00 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted January 8, 2007 Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Acts Have yet to give a listen to this or any of the other CDs I bought today with my Newbury Comics giftcard, but I'm sure it'll be good. The first Acid Bath track I ever heard, "13 Fingers," is off of this album, and I love that song. IIRC, I asked Agent once if he preferred this or When the Kite String Pops, and his response was that he leaned towards the former. Still, can't wait to give it a full listen. Sepultura - Arise Placed in the top 10 of Terrorizer's "Top 50 Death Metal albums," and I actually trust that mag's opinions and credibility. Plus, it's when Sepultura was still a nice wham-bam of death and thrash metal, so I'm happy. I need this, Beneath the Remains, and Bestial Devastation if I could find it, and then I believe I'll have all of the Max-era (ie. the good era) Sepultura stuff. Slayer - Show No Mercy It's really kinda sad that I've been a big Slayer fan for the last 6 years now without owning the first album, eh? I just need Divine Intervention, Undisputed Attitude, and Diabolous in Musica before I'm complete. Oh, and the Haunting the Chapel EP. I already know most of the songs on here thanks to a Slayer tribute album I have, as well as Decade of Aggression: Slayer Live on the second disc primarily. Not expecting much, as Slayer didn't show many signs of being anything other than a run-of-the-mill metal band until Hell Awaits, and then Reign in Blood ruled the fucking metal world. Hell at Last: A Tribute to Slayer Yeah...I'm a sucker for tribute albums to bands I love. Have 3 Metallica tributes (the so-so Metallic Assault, which is all mix-n-match collaborations from various people of different bands; the dreadful A Punk Tribute... which is only worth listening to for Sloppy Seconds' awesome cover of "Motörbreath"; and A Tribute to the Four Horsemen, which has a few damned solid covers, including Anthrax's cover of "Phantom Lord" originally for the first ECW CD), a Misfits tribute album but a Misfits tribute band (Ms. Fits), and another Slayer tribute album that's really a pair of them put together (Post Mortem: The Slayer Tribute, which has a few good covers but mostly boring generic death). I'm waiting for a tribute album to S.O.D. though, dammit! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Baron 0 Report post Posted January 8, 2007 Pink Floyd: Ummagumma. So far its okay, but I need to listen to it a few more spins to really grasp the whole album. I am loving Careful with that ax, Eugene. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cbacon 0 Report post Posted January 9, 2007 Cat Power - You Are Free Rilo Kiley - More Adventerous Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest RayCo Report post Posted January 12, 2007 I recently purchased Lonestars latest album called 'Mountains'. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Si82 0 Report post Posted January 12, 2007 "Spunk" - Sex Pistols Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toshiaki Koala 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2007 At The Drive-In — Relationship of Command Mars Volta annoys the shit out of me, but this is an undeniably awesome nu-Fugazi album. And it was only $7.99. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Legalise Drugs and Murder Report post Posted January 22, 2007 Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Acts Have yet to give a listen to this or any of the other CDs I bought today with my Newbury Comics giftcard, but I'm sure it'll be good. The first Acid Bath track I ever heard, "13 Fingers," is off of this album, and I love that song. IIRC, I asked Agent once if he preferred this or When the Kite String Pops, and his response was that he leaned towards the former. Still, can't wait to give it a full listen. They're more or less equally as good as one another. I'm pretty sure what I said was that you'd like Paegan.. more. They're interchangeable to me anymore. I like Agents of Oblivion more than either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hank Kingsley 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2007 Rhett Miller, The Instigator, and the new Shins, Wincing The Night Away Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2007 I just ordered the two recently reissued Wrens albums, Secaucus and Silver. Never heard the latter, but the former is one of my favorites. Do you kids listen to the Wrens? Cause you should, especially Secaucus. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vivalaultra 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2007 The first time I heard The Wrens was in 1999, when I was still kinda in the latter-days of my (I loathe to admit this) poppy-punk/emo phase. This one Drive-Thru records sampler that I bought had "This Boy Is Exhausted" and "Miss Me"on it samwiched between the Rx Bandits and Midtown. I never thought, then, that 8 years later I'd have both of their CDs on my iPod and listen to them with a semi-high degree of regularity. I do prefer The Meadowlands, though. As for I, I recently got the Long Blondes CD, which is good...and the Pearl Jam Greatest Hits CD. Some of those songs have aged well and others haven't. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2007 I completely missed the boat on the chance to sell my at-one-time rare copy of Secaucus. Sigh. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hank Kingsley 0 Report post Posted January 31, 2007 Schuyler Fisk - Songs for Now (ep) Brett Dennen - So Much More Tom Freund - Copper Moon and North American Long Weekend And checked out and burned from the Music Library: Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress U2 - Achtung Baby Outkast - Aquemini Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted January 31, 2007 Have you listened to Belle & Sebastian before, Superstar? I happen to like DCW quite a bit, but I'm curious as to how much you already know about them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hank Kingsley 0 Report post Posted January 31, 2007 I got If You're Feeling Sinister not too long ago and thought it was pretty good. I like Catastrophe Waitress a lot better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted January 31, 2007 Not too long ago, I listened to IYFS for the first time in quite awhile, and, well, Fell In Love All Over Again. Such a gorgeous album. DCW is really good, though not as consistent; "Step Into My Office, Baby," for instance, is excruciatingly hokey, yet it starts the album! Have you heard The Life Pursuit? I think that one's second only to If You're Feeling Sinister, as far as their proper LPs go. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hank Kingsley 0 Report post Posted January 31, 2007 I have not, I'll try to check it out. Side note: The more I listen to him, the more I realize that Tom Freund sounds like Jeff Tweedy. So, if you like Wilco, check him out. It hit me when I heard the song "Copper Moon," but both albums listed above are worth checking out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Baron 0 Report post Posted February 2, 2007 Surprisingly got these both dirt cheap, and no more than 10 bucks combined. Nirvana: In Utero Danzig: Danzig Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted February 5, 2007 Destruction - Thrash Anthems My introduction, outside of a track here and there, to a classic thrash metal band. Just released, and I gotta say: I dig it. A lot. Not as much as, say, Exodus or Slayer or Municipal Waste, but it's not bad at all. Fun thrash metal, and it's easy to see how modern-day thrash-oriented metal bands like The Haunted, Susperia (blackened thrash), and Darkest Hour draw references to older bands like Destruction. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles - 4 of a Kind Thrash icons and pioneers. Inventors of the blast beat. I couldn't find any of their earlier albums, before they tried their best to become a metal band, but this isn't bad at all. Very similar to M.O.D. and other crossover bands, and I really want to find the earlier albums and EPs. Not just from DRI, but other thrash bands, especially Corrosion of Conformity (since their swamp sound is decent, but runs on boring, even if Pepper's voice fits it perfectly). The Distilers - Sing Sing Death House It's amazing how every Distillers song I've heard is off of this album. My friend Sarah got me into them back in '02, and I've never bothered to buy an album until recently. Good punk. It's a shame that the follow-up to this is borderline emo, since Brody showed such amazing promise with this album and even delivered on it a good bit. "I Am a Revenent" and "City of Angels" are big standouts, though the whole album flows cohesively. Similar to The Offspring's Smash in terms of overall quality, but not as varied...and that's actually a good thing. The Murder City Devils - The Murder City Devils Another band my friend Sarah got me into. I bought this for "Boom Swagger Boom," which is my favorite song by them, and I'm going to be getting more MCD albums. If The Doors were a wild punk band, they'd be the Murder City Devils...and I only say that because of the organ used in most of their songs. Gloomy, often depressing, but always fun punk. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
